[CentOS-devel] (How) do others SIGs provide kernel modules?

On October 7, 2018 12:37:37 PM GMT+03:00, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>There is an oustanding request for the Storage SIG to package and
>provide VDO:
>
>> VDO (which includes kvdo and vdo) is software that provides inline
>> block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning
>> capabilities for primary storage.
>
>Both components ate packaged in a Fedora COPR, and a reasonable .spec
>file is provided by the upstream project.
>
>However, the kernel module is packaged with DKMS. This would result in
>building the module during RPM installation, and possibly on reboot
>after a kernel update.
>
>There is a dkms package in the CBS (by Haïkel), but it is only tagged
>with -candidate. I would like to know what the reasons were to not
>consumer it for a release.
>
>It seems that there is one (that I could find) package in the CBS that
>provides a kernel modules (openafs-kmod by Jonathan). It utilizes DKMS
>as well, but also never made it a repository for release.
>
>Then there is the kmod package (build by Lokesh). This is an
>alternative
>way of building kernel modules. It compiles the module in the CBS, for
>a
>specific (sortof major) kernel version. The resulting RPM can then be
>installed without the need to build it again.
>
>My personal preference would be to provide kernel modules with the kmod
>practise. But I love to hear opinions and experiences from others.
>

dkms requires the presence of compiler and a ton of devel packages . I prefer to not have any of those on servers. So +1 for kmods

Wolfy, former packager of ath and realtek modules in dkms format